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Nunez-Mino, Jose. "Biodiversity indicators and conservation priorities in Cusuco National Park, Honduras". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543041.
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Bajpai, Sunil. "Sustainable national parks: balancing competing priorities of conservation and recreation". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12704.
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Sustainable national parks: balancing competing priorities of conservation and recreation For the healthy survival of our planet, anthropogenic activities need to be conducted sustainably. The sustainable development approach has resulted in larger areas now being under protection globally, but mere declaration of areas as protected does not ensure their ecological preservation. Sound management is also necessary to maximise the benefits of conservation by mitigating the degradation accompanying legislated recreational use of such areas. This study aimed to demonstrate how contemporary management frameworks, such as Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC), the Recreational Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) and Wilderness Perception Mapping (WPM), could be used to improve management efforts in protected areas. The research has physical and social science components. A questionnaire survey of visitors was conducted in the Royal National Park (RNP) to elicit information about people’s motivation for visiting RNP, their attitude towards issues included within the LAC, ROS and WPM frameworks, and other general questions. Results were used to formulate minimum acceptable standards which visitors expect in RNP. The physical indicators used as part of the LAC framework for this study were (a) non-native flora species; (b) litter; (c) trail width; and (d) bare ground in camp sites. Quantification of these indicators and their comparison with visitors’ expectations provided the basis to either confirm or reject resource condition as acceptable. A hypothetical ROS map was developed to identify zones as Developed, Semi-developed and Primitive areas, along with three WPM maps corresponding to the visitor categories created, namely Purist, Semi-purist and Non-purist. This combination of the LAC, ROS and WPM frameworks created a basis for sound decision-making about the competing priorities of conservation and recreation.
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Bogurcu, Merve. "Investigation Of Sectoral Priorities For Cleaner (sustainable) Production At Regional And National Level". Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614218/index.pdf.
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One of the most important factors leading to success of a regional/national cleaner (sustainable) production strategy is sector-focused approach. Due to limited resources and other constraints, it is a necessity to make a prioritization between
sectors for cleaner (sustainable) production practices. Thus, within the scope of this study, manufacturing industry sub-sectors in Izmir and in Turkey were prioritized based on various criteria. The results should assist policy makers in the preparation of related sectoral roadmaps and action plans.The prioritization of manufacturing industry sub-sector was accomplished via Multi- Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method with the integration of recent available data and by taking feedback from the stakeholders. Investigation of the sectoral
priorities was carried out both at regional (Izmir) and national (Turkey) level. The criteria used in prioritization of manufacturing industry sub-sectors in Izmir were water and energy consumption, amount of wastewater discharged, amount of solid waste and hazardous waste generated, greenhouse gas emissions, HerfindahlHirschman Index (statistical measure of market concentration), sectoral employment, number of companies, export share, added value and suitability for
cleaner (sustainable) production. In the prioritization analysis of Turkey all of the aforementioned criteria for Izmir except Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, number of companies and added value were used.Based on the results of this study, the top five high priority industrial sectors for cleaner (sustainable) production practices in Izmir are basic metal industry, food
products and beverages, chemicals and chemical products, other non-metallic mineral products and coke and refined petroleum. In the sectoral prioritization analysis for cleaner (sustainable) production in Turkey textile industry takes the
place of coke and refined petroleum. These sectors coincide with the priority sectors identified based on different purposes by other regional and national institutions.
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WOESTE, MICHAEL JON. "SERVICE LEARNING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: NATIONAL LEADERS' EXPECTATIONS AND PRIORITIES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1029755296.
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Zimmermann, Lars. "Britain, France and Germany priorities for the European Union's security and defense policy". Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FZimmermann.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Europe and Eurasia))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Yost, David S. Second Reader: Moran, Daniel. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 28, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Britain, United Kingdom, France, Germany, ESDP, ESVP, European Security and Defense Policy, European Security and Defence Policy, European Union, Foreign policy, St. Malo, National interest, Priorities. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-94). Also available in print.
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Badura, Tomas. "Spatial dimensions of biodiversity values : analyses of preference heterogeneity and conservation priorities across national landscapes". Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/69537/.
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This thesis contributes to our understanding of the spatial dimension of biodiversity related values in the context of changing environment. It starts with making a case for the use economic valuation for improving decision making related to environmental change and with an overview of the main concepts and approaches for doing so (Chapter 1). The thesis highlights the need to better incorporate the spatial considerations in ecosystem assessments and the importance of robust natural science that underpins any such assessments. The thesis then provides three empirical analyses, two that employ discrete choice modelling to examine how spatial information influences preferences for environmental change, and one that focuses on modelling the biodiversity impacts of land use change. The contributions of the thesis are as follows. 1) development of a novel methodology for choice experiments that incorporates space in the survey design, experimental design and presentation of choice situations on individualised maps (Chapter 3); 2) application of this methodology to test how addition of individualised maps alongside commonly used Tabular format impacts on preferences and welfare values for environmental change (Chapter 3); 3) provision of evidence that state and country borders have an impact on preferences for the portrayed changes (Chapter 2 and 3); and 4) development of prediction models that allow evaluating land use change impacts on farmland bird species; this includes assessment of model performance and variables importance for future integration of the models with economic analyses (Chapter 4). The thesis closes with research implications and personal research plans.
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Поліщук, Оксана Володимирівна. "Strategy of providing international competitiveness of domestic enterprises in the context of national development priorities". Thesis, Глобальні проблеми економіки та фінансів: збірник тез наукових робіт II Міжнародної науково-практичної конференції (Київ- Прага-Відень, «28» травня 2015 року / Фінансово-економічний наукова рада, 2015. — 188 с, 2015. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/50427.
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Nowadays competition is the driving force for company’s existence and
development in the market economy. Moreover, it is the source of the vitality
for enterprises. Companies make a product, and people buy it based upon their
opinion that it is the best price for the best quality they can get. If a company
makes a product at a price which is too high, other companies will seek a way
to undercut them and, as a result, steal their customers away. It sounds like
it is not very nice, but, and this is a big but, that is the real world. This is the
“arena” of international competitiveness in the early years of the new millenniumДосліджено проблеми конкурентоспроможності національних підприємств в умовах глобалізації. Конкурентна стратегія, як теоретична модель сприятиме зміцненню конкурентоспроможності підприємств
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Abdalla, Neveen Shaaban. "Requirements, priorities, and mandates : a model to examine the US requirements and priorities process and its impact on the outcome of national security and foreign policy events". Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15854.
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Historically in the United States, after-action investigations have consistently accused the intelligence community of early warning in foreign policy and national security events. However, closer inspection shows that the intelligence community does provide timely and actionable estimates-when it is directed to do so. In some instances, the root cause of failure does not lie within the intelligence community. Rather, it is due to a malfunction in the Requirements and Priorities (R&P) process, a mechanism that integrates intelligence and policy communities. The R&P provides the "mandate" for the intelligence community- it delivers a ranking of intelligence priorities, and informs resource distribution, interagency cooperation, and operational authorisations for federal intelligence agencies. The R&P process has been highlighted consistently as a systemic weakness, has undergone numerous changes, and remains a source of tribulation. Yet it is rarely addressed, and absent from after-action investigations. The impact of the R&P becomes most visible when urgent, unexpected issues arise in low priority areas. These events force a "mandate shift" - a rapid escalation of the issue to a higher priority, commanding an immediate realignment of mandate-level functions. Faults in any component of the mechanism can delay or restrict critical actions, and often as manifest as errors of intelligence collection or analysis. These "symptoms" are often misdiagnosed as the root cause, leading to accusations of intelligence failure. This research sets forth a model to observe the impact of the R&P on the outcome of foreign policy and national security events, while simultaneously investigating core functions of the intelligence and policy communities. This R&P-centric model is applied to three cases of social movement escalation: el Bogotázo (1948), the Iranian Revolution (1979), and the Rwandan Genocide (1994). The cases trace the R&P structure at the time, to examine how faults in the R&P can impact the intelligence community's ability to provide early warning, and influence the overall outcome.
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Біла, Світлана Олексіївна, e Svitlana Bila. "Strategic priorities of aviation services market’s competitiveness growth in Ukraine within globalization". Thesis, National Aviation University, 2016. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/38534.
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The basic strategic priorities of aviation services market’s competiveness growth in Ukraine within globalization terms are defined in the article. The special attention is given to the prospects of improving, security and achieving correspondence of national aviation services market’s standards with international ones under the terms of Ukraine’s joining Common aviation space with EU and rules of ‘common aviation area’. The main priorities of aviation branch in Ukraine are defined concerning its competitiveness growth.
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Lin, Wen-Ling. "Understanding organisational change in museums : an investigation of evolving museum priorities and practices at the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan". Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41221.
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In this time of rapid political, economic, social and technological change, museums of all kinds face continuous pressures and demands from a variety of stakeholders. These demands are frequently competing (or at least in tension), arising from the different agendas, interests and requirements of diverse stakeholders which, in turn, raise questions around the purposes and priorities of museums. Although many literatures have contributed to the discussion around the museum’s purpose, there remains a lack of in-depth, grounded analysis that explores museums’ structures, processes, and practices and the role of individuals and broader forces for change in the making and reshaping of the organisation. In short, there has been relatively little scholarly attention given to the study of the museum as an ever-changing, dynamic and complex organisation. Drawing on organisational change studies, management theories and museum studies, this thesis seeks to understand the processes that contribute to the reshaping of the museum’s purpose, priorities and practices by staff and other agents through a qualitative investigation of change within a single institution. The aims of the research are to better understand the role of leadership in the process of change and the dynamic attitudes, values and power relations that underpin such processes. In order to explore the hidden complexities of the internal workings in the museum, this paper employs a single case study - the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) in Taiwan – that was investigated through an organisational ethnography approach. This thesis focuses on two main forces for change. One is the increasing influence of market forces that encourage the museum to move towards more business-like practices. The other is a growing appreciation of the social responsibility of the museum. These two predominantly external forces play out in a different ways and, at the same time, emerge as significant factors which influence the museum’s move away from traditional functions and conventional works and practices. By revealing various values, interests and power dynamics intersecting at the organisational and personal levels, the thesis aims to contribute an enhanced understanding of how and why change occurs in museums and how potentially competing interests can be negotiated.
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Nehoran, Dana. "How much do you care about education? Exploring fluctuations of public interest in education issues among top national priorities in the U.S". Scholarly Commons, 2020. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3713.
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It is well known that a strong education system produces citizens who are more engaged in civil and social duties, with obvious benefits to society and the individuals. Policymakers who have the power to help improve the education system frequently rely on the news or the polls to better understand the issues involved, but these tools are often unable to answer customized questions on the public view with a large enough coverage.
Monitoring the American public interest in education over the years is not new. In fact, a number of national polling agencies have tracked education as part of their larger polls asking people to name the most burning issues facing the US. While these polls provide a fair indication of the changes in importance of education in the eyes of the public, they do not identify the factors which have historically been associated with the major fluctuations of such importance. Most importantly, these traditional national polls do not track public concern about specific subtopics within education.
This mixed methods study includes the creation of a software instrument with the objective of exploring the salience of education as a national priority over time and analyzing the possible factors associated with these fluctuations of interest. In addition to discovering the most prominent latent subtopics affecting education (such as academic achievement, sexual assault and freedom of speech), this study also seeks national-level issues that may have recently been associated with the largest declines.
The only source of data utilized is the text of tens of thousands of published news articles. Terms extracted from the text using natural language processing serve as the basis for automated qualitative analysis. As topics emerge from the data, the frequencies of the terms are utilized to associate the articles with the most relevant ones.
The analysis shows that public interest in education has declined the most during election times. It is also found that the areas that contributed the most during the largest surges of public interest in education from 2015 to 2020 were school budget, academic achievement gaps and mental health.
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Gkaraveli, Anthi G. "Forest conservation, expansion, restoration and management in a National Park : modelling ecology, suitability, biodiversity priorities, temporal and climate change using GIS and spatial data". Thesis, Bangor University, 2002. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/forest-conservation-expansion-restoration-and-management-in-a-national-park--modelling-ecology-suitability-biodiversity-priorities-temporal-and-climate-change-using-gis-and-spatial-data(76501537-4b60-449a-98a0-24a08d971599).html.
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When maintaining the biodiversity and ecological integrity of forests is a goal of management, a primary requirement is to assess the status, condition, conservation value of each forest, and change in forest conditions over time. GIS procedures were used here to compare different map-based surveys and look in detail at changes in woodlands of the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales, from 1970 to 2000. The maps from the 1970s and 1980s generated by Silsoe College did not compare well with the map from the 1990s produced by the Forestry Commission and no meaningful changes could be measured. This was attributed to difficulties with comparison of different interpretations and classification schemes used by the two organisations. A series of landscape surveys using the same minimum mapping unit, classification scheme, and methodology in general is needed. The potential changes in broadleaved and scrub woodland area were modelled based on the two most extreme climate change scenarios, termed the Low and High scenarios. Temperature and rainfall models formed the basis for logistic regressions of woodland type and distribution. A declining trend in probability of presence for both woodland types from the present sites was shown under the UKCIP98 High climate change scenario. The results emphasized the conceptual difficulties in using fragments of woodland within the realised niche rather than the fundamental niche as the basis for environmental modelling of plant community distributions. GIS based models were generated to address the key question in the biodiversity action plan process of where should new woodland be created or plantations restored. Ecological criteria were developed to identify the priority areas for native woodland expansion taking into account of the requirements for successful woodland expansion from the nature point of view and specific policy aims. The results were interesting and suggested that there is ample land potentially suitable in Snowdonia for new native woodland. The models could be used to aid decision-making for new native woodland in the National Park. A further extension of GIS-based modelling was developed for the prediction of individual NVC types and BAP priority woodland types. The environmental spaces occupied by the fragments of NVC woodland types currently present in Snowdonia were defined and used as templates to produce maps of potentially suitable sites for the occurrence of each NVC type. The results were not as clear-cut as had been hoped because of overlaps in the predicted occurrences of various woodland types. Independent verification of the predictions using non-spatial data for 24 sites revealed that the model produced was very poor. This was not, however, a fault of the modelling but a reflection of the fact that some of the environmental data were at too coarse a scale and that NVC types are not solely determined by environmental factors. In spite of some weaknesses in the data, the use of GIS for modelling these scenarios proved useful. Nowadays, forest policies in Wales, Europe and elsewhere are changing rapidly to meet modified global, national, and local objectives. GIS is, and will increasingly be so, proving to be a useful and flexible tool for translating forest policy into practical application on the ground.
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Staf, Jonny. "Skolledares uppfattning om de statliga målen för skolan : En kvantitativ studie om skolledares uppfattning och prioritering av de statliga målen". Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-38193.
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Abstract The purpose of the study was to ascertain the school leaders knowledge and priorities of the national goals for their school system respectively and how they declare that they and other operators within the local school system, give priority to the goals. In order to answer this question at issue, a web-based questionnaire was performed among school leaders in a fairly large municipality in Sweden. My result shows that the school leaders have good knowledge of the national goals for the school system where they operate, but they experience that other actors have less knowledge of these goals. Furthermore, the school leaders declare that they give priority to the national goals to a high degree, but not more than other goals, while they experience that other operators do not prioritize the national goals to the same extent. The other actors in this context are school staff, school heads, responsible local politicians and municipal principal organisers. Those who prioritize the national goals the least are the local politicians, according to the school leaders. The result indicates that local goals sometimes are more prioritized than the national goals, instead of using the national goals as a criterion and subordinate the local goals.Sammanfattning Syftet med min undersökning var att ta reda på skolledares kännedom om och prioriteringar av de statliga målen för sina respektive verksamheter och hur de uppger att de och andra aktörer prioriterar dessa mål. För att undersöka detta genomfördes en webbaserad enkätundersökning bland skolledare i en medelstor kommun i västra Sverige. Mitt resultat visar att skolledarna uppger sig själva ha god kännedom om de statliga målen för sina respektive verksamheter men att de uppger sig uppleva att andra aktörer har sämre kännedom om dessa. På samma sätt uppger sig skolledarna i hög grad, om än inte lika hög grad, prioritera de statliga målen framför andra mål samtidigt som de upplever att andra aktörer inte prioriterar de statliga målen i lika hög grad. Dessa andra aktörer är skolans personal, förvaltning, ansvariga lokala politiker och huvudman. Lägst värden vad gäller prioriteringar av de statliga målen uppger skolledarna att de upplever att lokala politiker har. Resultatet indikerar att lokala mål ibland kan prioriteras framför statliga, istället för att utgå från och underordnas dessa.
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Hussain, Rajmah. "Malaysia at the United Nations : a study of foreign policy priorities, 1957-1987". Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445483.
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Nguyen, Anthony Ngoc. "Importance Prioritised Image Coding in JPEG 2000". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16005/1/Anthony_Nguyen_Thesis.pdf.
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Importance prioritised coding is a principle aimed at improving the interpretability (or image content recognition) versus bit-rate performance of image coding systems. This can be achieved by (1) detecting and tracking image content or regions of interest (ROI) that are crucial to the interpretation of an image, and (2)compressing them in such a manner that enables ROIs to be encoded with higher fidelity and prioritised for dissemination or transmission. Traditional image coding systems prioritise image data according to an objective measure of distortion and this measure does not correlate well with image quality or interpretability. Importance prioritised coding, on the other hand, aims to prioritise image contents according to an 'importance map', which provides a means for modelling and quantifying the relative importance of parts of an image. In such a coding scheme the importance in parts of an image containing ROIs would be higher than other parts of the image. The encoding and prioritisation of ROIs means that the interpretability in these regions would be improved at low bit-rates.
An importance prioritised image coder incorporated within the JPEG 2000 international standard for image coding, called IMP-J2K, is proposed to encode and prioritise ROIs according to an 'importance map'. The map can be automatically generated using image processing algorithms that result in a limited number of ROIs, or manually constructed by hand-marking OIs using a priori knowledge. The proposed importance prioritised coder coder provides a user of the encoder with great flexibility in defining single or multiple ROIs with arbitrary degrees of importance and prioritising them using IMP-J2K. Furthermore, IMP-J2K codestreams can be reconstructed by generic JPEG 2000 decoders, which is important for interoperability between imaging systems and processes.
The interpretability performance of IMP-J2K was quantitatively assessed using the subjective National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale (NIIRS). The effect of importance prioritisation on image interpretability was investigated, and a
methodology to relate the NIIRS ratings, ROI importance scores and bit-rates was proposed to facilitate NIIRS specifications for importance prioritised coding.
In addition, a technique is proposed to construct an importance map by allowing a user of the encoder to use gaze patterns to automatically determine and assign importance to fixated regions (or ROIs) in an image. The importance map can be used by IMP-J2K to bias the encoding of the image to these ROIs, and subsequently to allow a user at the receiver to reconstruct the image as desired by the user of the encoder. Ultimately, with the advancement of automated importance mapping techniques that can reliably predict regions of visual attention, IMP-J2K may play a significant role in matching an image coding scheme to the human visual system.
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Nguyen, Anthony Ngoc. "Importance Prioritised Image Coding in JPEG 2000". Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16005/.
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Importance prioritised coding is a principle aimed at improving the interpretability (or image content recognition) versus bit-rate performance of image coding systems. This can be achieved by (1) detecting and tracking image content or regions of interest (ROI) that are crucial to the interpretation of an image, and (2)compressing them in such a manner that enables ROIs to be encoded with higher fidelity and prioritised for dissemination or transmission. Traditional image coding systems prioritise image data according to an objective measure of distortion and this measure does not correlate well with image quality or interpretability. Importance prioritised coding, on the other hand, aims to prioritise image contents according to an 'importance map', which provides a means for modelling and quantifying the relative importance of parts of an image. In such a coding scheme the importance in parts of an image containing ROIs would be higher than other parts of the image. The encoding and prioritisation of ROIs means that the interpretability in these regions would be improved at low bit-rates. An importance prioritised image coder incorporated within the JPEG 2000 international standard for image coding, called IMP-J2K, is proposed to encode and prioritise ROIs according to an 'importance map'. The map can be automatically generated using image processing algorithms that result in a limited number of ROIs, or manually constructed by hand-marking OIs using a priori knowledge. The proposed importance prioritised coder coder provides a user of the encoder with great flexibility in defining single or multiple ROIs with arbitrary degrees of importance and prioritising them using IMP-J2K. Furthermore, IMP-J2K codestreams can be reconstructed by generic JPEG 2000 decoders, which is important for interoperability between imaging systems and processes. The interpretability performance of IMP-J2K was quantitatively assessed using the subjective National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale (NIIRS). The effect of importance prioritisation on image interpretability was investigated, and a methodology to relate the NIIRS ratings, ROI importance scores and bit-rates was proposed to facilitate NIIRS specifications for importance prioritised coding. In addition, a technique is proposed to construct an importance map by allowing a user of the encoder to use gaze patterns to automatically determine and assign importance to fixated regions (or ROIs) in an image. The importance map can be used by IMP-J2K to bias the encoding of the image to these ROIs, and subsequently to allow a user at the receiver to reconstruct the image as desired by the user of the encoder. Ultimately, with the advancement of automated importance mapping techniques that can reliably predict regions of visual attention, IMP-J2K may play a significant role in matching an image coding scheme to the human visual system.
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Borneman, Chiara, e Figueira Mateus Possati. "Managing Portfolios of Developing Projects in a Complex Environment : How the UN Assign Priorities to Programmes at the Country Level". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-145417.
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Purpose: This research intends to shed a light in the practice of project portfolio management in the non-traditional – although project oriented – aid sector. The research aim is to study the decision-making structures supporting the prioritization of projectsand/or programmes in multilateral organizations, which play a determinant role in the development aid sector. Research Methodology: Through an in-depth and-holistic case study, the empiricalresearch investigated how the UN coordination practitioners perceived the role of thecontext in the implementation of the Delivery as One Approach, which comprehends aset of standards and procedures (SOPs) supporting the management of multiple UN entities at the country level, to enhance effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and impact. A total of 9 semi-structured interviews were conducted with current and former employees in the UN resident coordination office in a range of countries in Africa, LatinAmerica and the Middle East. From the collection of qualitative data, the researchers wereable to grasp the nuances of the data set through the elaboration of templates, which based the further discussion and conclusions of the work. Research Findings: The empirical findings confirmed the relevance of a number of constructs identified in the theoretical framework, defining how the context influences the decision making that takes place in the prioritization of programmes in the development aid sector. Specifically, the results highlight the relevance of the governancestructure, the bounded rationality of decision makers, specific characteristics of the decision, country peculiarities, and the different sources of uncertainty. Moreover, the relationships between these factors were highlighted through a relationship network diagram that clearly identifies the complex interrelations between these factors and theirsub-themes. Research Delimitations and Limitations: The delimitations in this study are characterized as the choices made by the researchers on the parameters considered and mentioned, setting the boundaries for the investigation. From a methodological standpoint, by using the single case study method, the findings and conclusion of the present research applies majorly to the organization studied. Originality / Value: This research advances the portfolio management literature on the field of international development aid and expands the understanding of how the aspects of this unique environment influences the decision making of assigning priorities to projects and programmes. Furthermore, the research draws attention to the different sources of uncertainties originating from the context, inherent of these types oforganizations.
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Rollet, Jacques-Hubert. "Le crédit-bail : une technique financière au service de l'investissementUn mode de financement des priorités nationales". Paris, EHESS, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985EHES0114.
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O'Shea, Thomas A. "Using an Inventory of Unstable Slopes to Prioritize Probabilistic Rockfall Modeling and Acid Base Accounting in Great Smoky Mountains National Park". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3952.
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An inventory of unstable slopes along transportation corridors and performance modeling are important components of geotechnical asset management in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM). Hazards and risk were assessed for 285 unstable slopes along 151 miles of roadway. A multi-criteria model was created to select fourteen sites for two-dimensional probabilistic rockfall simulations and Acid Base Accounting (ABA) tests. Simulations indicate that rock material would likely enter the roadway at all fourteen sites. ABA test results indicate that influence of significant acid-producing potential is generally confined to slaty rocks of the Anakeesta Formation and graphitic schist of the Wehutty Formation. The research illustrates an approach for prioritizing areas for site-specific investigations towards the goal of improving safety in GRSM. These results can help park officials develop mitigation strategies for rockfall, using strategies such as widening ditches and encapsulating acidic rockfall material.
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Meilland, Auriane. "Articulation entre priorités de développement nationales et objectifs d'atténuation du changement climatique - analyse, modélisation et implications pour la négociation internationale sur le climat". Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPASB015.
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Objectifs d'atténuation du changement climatique et priorités de développement sont étroitement liés. Cependant, dans une certaine mesure, ces deux sujets restent traités dans des sphères séparées, à la fois au niveau des pays et à l'échelle internationale, où le développement est abordé dans le contexte des Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODDs), et l'atténuation via la Convention Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques (CCNUCC). Dans ce contexte, les stratégies de développement des pays sont-elles alignées avec leurs objectifs d'atténuation du changement climatique ? Cette analyse peut-elle permettre de repenser le caractère équitable des contributions des pays à l'Accord de Paris ? Pour répondre à ces questions, y compris pour des pays pour lesquels données et analyses existantes sont limitées, ce travail de thèse construit et fournit des premières applications d'une méthodologie basée sur un modèle et peu intensive en données. Elle examine les conditions sous lesquelles les cibles d'atténuation, figurant dans les Contributions Déterminées au niveau National, et d'autres objectifs nationaux long-terme de développement, figurant dans des documents de planification nationale, sont compatibles.Premièrement, en l'absence d'un recensement exhaustif des priorités de développement des pays, nous collectons et analysons les documents nationaux de développement à long-terme de 121 pays, pour en extraire leurs priorités de développement. Ce faisant, nous montrons que les ODDs constituent un cadre suffisamment exhaustif pour cartographier les priorités de développement. Nous construisons ensuite une méthodologie utilisant le modèle d'équilibre general calculable (MEGC) KLEM, pour évaluer la compatibilité entre certaines des priorités de développement proposées dans les documents nationaux, et les cibles nationales d'atténuation. Nous montrons que l'évaluation des politiques climatiques par les MEGC est sensible aux choix de bouclage macroéconomique du modèle - un tel résultat n'existant pas encore, à notre connaissance, dans la littérature de modélisation climat - et incluons par conséquent des analyses de sensibilité autour de cette question dans notre méthode. Nous proposons de premières applications de la méthodologie au Malawi, à la Colombie et à l'Irak, et une discussion sur ses futurs développements. Troisièmement, nous passons en revue les outils utilisés pour évaluer le caractère équitable des cibles nationales d'atténuation : aucune ne permet à la fois d'inclure l'éventail complet de principes d'équité (parfois contradictoires) existant dans la littérature, et de systématiquement proposer un jugement concluant. Nous menons une première enquête par questionnaire pour collecter les opinions des citoyens Français et Américains sur l'équité dans le cadre international. Les résulats suggèrent qu'une extension de telles enquêtes à visée normative permettraient de légitimer l'utilisation d'un éventail plus restreint de principes, améliorant - sans toutefois le garantir - le caractère concluant des outils. Nous concluons cette thèse en exposant comment l'intégration d'autres priorités de développement dans ces discussions sur l'équité pourrait permettre de résoudre ces entravesClimate change mitigation goals and development priorities are closely linked. For the most part, however, they remain discussed in separate arenas, both within individual countries and at the international stage, where development is addressed in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and mitigation is tackled by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In such a context, are countries' development strategies consistent with their climate mitigation targets? Can this assessment shed new light on how fair countries' contributions to the Paris Agreement are? To address these questions, including for countries in which existing data and analyses are limited, the present thesis builds and provides first applications of a model-based, data-sober methodology. Its aim is to examine the conditions under which climate mitigation targets, as expressed in Nationally Determined Contributrions, and other long-term national development goals, as expressed in official development planning documents, are compatible.In the absence of a comprehensive dataset on countries' development priorities, we first collect and analyse the long-term national development documents of 121 countries to extract stated development priorities. In doing so, we show that the SDGs are comprehensive enough to be a relevant framework to map development priorities. We then build a flexible methodology based on the computable general equilibrium (CGE) model KLEM to assess the compatibility between some of the development priorities expressed in the development plans, and national mitigation targets. We demonstrate that CGE assessments of climate policies are sensitive to the choice of macroeconomic closure of the model - a point that, to our knowledge, had not been made in the climate modeling literature - and consequently include sensitivity analyses on this dimension in our methodology. We provide first applications of the methodology to Malawi, Colombia and Iraq, and discuss directions for future developments. Third, we review the tools currently used to assess the fairness of national mitigation targets: none would, at the same time, include the wide range of (sometimes contradictory) equity principles in the literature, while providing conclusive judgements. We build a survey collecting citizens' attitudes towards international equity in France and the US. Its results suggest that such surveys with a normative intent, if expanded, could legitimize the use of a narrower range of principles, thus improving - without fully reaching - the conclusiveness of these tools. We conclude by discussing how integrating other development priorities in the debates on fairness may help overcome this stumbling block
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Sandhu, Neelam. "National health Information Management/Information Technology priorities: an international comparative study". Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/43.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
This thesis research contributes to national health Information Management/Information
Technology (IM/IT) planning and therefore strategy development and implementation
research, as well as to health information science. An examination into the national
health IM/IT plans of several countries provides knowledge into identifying the typical
IM/IT priorities that selected countries are focusing upon for healthcare improvement.
Second, a systematic literature review of the current challenges, barriers and/or issues
(referred to as ‘challenges’ hereafter) facing IM/IT priority implementation in healthcare
settings provides insight on where nations should perhaps be focusing their attention, in
order to enable more successful healthcare IM/IT implementations. Lastly, a study on
national health IM/IT priorities contributes to the body of evidence that national level
IM/IT direction is necessary for better patient care and health system reform across the
world.
In this investigation, the national health IM/IT priorities, which are reflected in the
national health IM/IT strategic plans of five countries were assessed. To this end, the
study: 1) Developed a set of measures to select four countries to study in addition to
Canada; 2) Described the national health IM/IT priorities of Canada and four other
countries; 3) Performed a systematic literature review of the challenges to overcome for
successful implementation of IM/IT into healthcare settings; 4) Developed and
administered a questionnaire where participants were asked to give their opinions on the
progress their country has achieved in dealing with such challenges; and 5) Performed an
analysis of the questionnaire results with respect to the countries’ national health IM/IT
priorities.
The systematic literature review uncovered a large number of challenges that the health
informatics and healthcare community face when attempting to implement IM/IT into
healthcare settings.
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The priority comparison highlighted that there is no right or wrong answer for what
countries should focus their national health IM/IT energies upon. The findings indicate
that nations focus their resources (time, money, personnel etc.) on the priorities they feel
they should, whether those stem from needs analyses or politics. However, by learning
about what other nations are prioritizing, a country can use that knowledge to help focus
their own national health IM/IT priorities.
The questionnaire results drew attention to the most frequently encountered challenges
the five countries face in moving their national health IM/IT agendas forward. The
feedback from the respondents provided individual reflections on how IM/IT
implementations are actually progressing in their country, where problems are being
encountered, including the nature of those problems, and in some cases, respondents
offered insight on how to better deal with the challenges they face. The findings indicate
that nations encounter similar problems in implementing IM/IT into healthcare settings.
Currently, the world is facing many of the same healthcare system issues: shortages of
healthcare processionals, long surgical and diagnostic imaging waitlists, ‘skyrocketing’
pharmaceutical drug pricing, healthcare funding practices, and challenges with
implementing healthcare IM/IT priorities to name a few. If countries are facing similar
health system problems, then it would be logical to assume that solutions to deal with
such problems would be similar across nations.
Thus, it is recommended that international fora and conferences be held to further discuss
the types of health system IM/IT priorities that countries are implementing at a nation
scale, the kinds of challenges they face and the solutions or conclusions that they have
formulated in response to these challenges.
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Urban, Traian. "Dopad procesu europeizace na Španělsko". Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338092.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
This dissertation analyses the europeanisation process and its impact on Spain. Its main aim is to find answers to the following questions - which Spanish institutions were mostly affected by Spain joining the European Communities/European Union and how successful was Spain in putting their political priorities on the top of the list of the European Union agenda. It analyses the main impacts and emphasizes the institutional changes that were put in place with the aim of fulfilling the European political requirements. Having done the analysis using the appropriate tools, this dissertation comes to a conclusion that the Spanish membership in the European Communities/European Union had an important impact on domestic institutional structure and the political system. It also shows that in certain aspects Spain was able to push its national interests and to influence the European integration process in the areas of its priority interests. On the other hand, this dissertation also comes to a conclusion, that with the growing number of member states and the impact of economic crisis Spain has lost its productive power that was characteristic for this country until the end of 2004. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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LaBelle, Stephanie C. "Aboriginal women, mining negotiations, and project development: analyzing the motivations and priorities shaping leadership and participation". 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30351.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
The major objective of this thesis is to assess the role and contributions of Aboriginal women to mining negotiations and project development. Utilizing qualitative feminist research methodology, this research incorporated the perspectives of several participants all involved in the mining industry in different capacities. Through bridging the realities, observations, experiences, and contributions of a variety of stakeholders, this project assesses how and why Aboriginal women are involved in mining negotiations and project development, measures to facilitate women’s involvement in mining development and negotiations, and how to improve the relationships between mining industry and Aboriginal stakeholders.
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McGuigan, Erin Kathleen. "Of moose and man : collaborating to identify First Nations’ priorities for cumulative impact assessment in northeast British Columbia". Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18072.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
In northeast British Columbia, industrial development is proceeding at a rapid rate. While it is playing and integral role in the provincial economy, there is increasing concern that the cumulative impacts of this development may be causing environmental damage and potentially infringing on the unique rights of First Nations in the region. This project involved collaboration with the Treaty 8 Tribal Association and member First Nations to identify the concerns that should be addressed in a cumulative impact assessment. To minimize the pitfalls associated with imposing a research agenda and methods at the community-level, we took a community-based collaborative approach. Multiple interviews and archival research identified multiple concerns that extend well beyond the natural environment. For the purpose of guiding cumulative impact assessment, these concerns were broken down into six themes: land-based activities; human health; identity, culture and sense of place; access to financial benefits; power, rights and jurisdiction; and intrinsic value of nature. The inclusion of non-ecological values and the identification of concerns not assessed under regional resource management approaches emphasize the need to establish a means to include First Nations in the assessment of cumulative impacts. The diversity amongst the concerns identified by the communities and their capacity to participate in such a study highlights the need for an open and flexible approach to collaboration. Finally, the difficulties encountered during this project illustrate the need for both researchers and communities to proceed with care and caution when entering into collaborative research partnerships.Forestry, Faculty of
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Hung, Bing-Rung, e 洪秉榮. "This research uses analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to prioritize these factors，the Ministry of National Defense Ministry has high organizational commitment". Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61272048313498919872.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
碩士高苑科技大學
經營管理研究所
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Abstract To build strong military forces is a long way to go, for it involves diverse factors. Manpower, weapons and training are the most important factors of all, and in fact, they are closely connected to the purpose, environment, strategies, organization, technology and culture of developing military force. Hence, apart from international vision, long-term planning, resource allocation, military development should take into account the comprehensiveness, effectiveness and practical issues of military strategies. Moreover, all of these are based upon organizational commitment. The Ministry of National Defense in Taiwan has recently reformed the organization of the forces by a series of ‘downsizing projects’, in order to improve the military performance and to increase the ratio of manpower with specialty. With a view to establish the military forces upon professional soldiers with special skills and knowledge and to meet the demand of military modernization, reform the recruitment of manpower and raise their organizational commitment are the primary concern for the National Defense Ministry. This concern reflects some scholars’ opinion, suggesting that military power is not determined by military equipment but by organizational commitment. Based on literature review and interviewing experts in this field, this research has found four factors, including, leadership model, incentive system, job satisfaction and organizational culture, are influential to organizational commitment. This research uses analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to prioritize these factors, hoping to help the ministry to improve the military performance in this country. From the interviews with experts, it is incentive system that they consider as the crucial among the four factors. On the whole, salary and bonus system, promotion, personal development opportunity, job satisfaction, team management, team remuneration all lead to high organizational commitment.